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Channel Shock: The Future of Travel Distribution

The travel industry is always fixated on what’s new and sexy. Whether it’s booking a hotel using Amazon Alexa, or checking your Priceline booking from your Apple Watch, we tend […]

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Is Facebook the Next Google? Facebook’s Search Functionality Explained

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last decade, you’re likely familiar with Facebook. Since its inception in 2004, Facebook has grown in to a cultural and financial […]

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TripAdvisor’s Global Food Delivery Expansion Pressures Hotels to Adapt

Online food delivery services have increased people’s appetite for eating in, including in hotel rooms, and hoteliers have little choice but to swallow the trend. The trend’s popularity is represented […]

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How a Vanity Hotel Website Can Complement Your Marketing Efforts

Roughly two thirds of all hotels in the United States are chain affiliated. Being part of a chain offers many advantages to hotel owners; name recognition, access to established loyalty […]

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US hoteliers, pay attention to Chinese shopping trends

How Chinese travelers will have an impact on the global hotel industry is a hot topic of conversation, as China’s middle class grows in its spending and traveling habits. Lee […]

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Could customer experience become travel’s biggest profit driver

It is no coincidence; the most customer-focused airlines earn more than two times the industry average. Introduction Shortly after to embarking on its Always Getting Better customer experience programme, Ryanair’s […]

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Create a Revenue Centric Culture in your Hotel by Integrating Technology

In the previous part of this blog series, we discussed Guest Sentiment and your Online Presence. In the 3rd and final part of the blog series, Building a Revenue Centric […]

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Revenue Managers job will change but not eliminated by AI

With buzzwords of machine learning and AI gaining mainstream attention we hear a lot of different viewpoints from the revenue management community. Some embrace the future at hand, others are […]

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Smarter Hotel Email Automation & Personalization

The marketing mix is becoming more and more complex with new opportunities and tools constantly becoming available to hoteliers. Unfortunately, the days are not getting longer so automation and smarter […]

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Is Facebook Still a Relevant Platform for Hotel Social Media Marketing?

Most social marketers still consider Facebook their most valuable hotel social media platform and it shows by the amount of ad revenue poured into the platform. 2017 ad revenue for […]

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